Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-30

The reward of one duty is the power to
fulfill George Eliot.
God has two dwellings-one in heaven
and the other in meek and thankful
heart.
The Word of Life is meant for men as
sinners, and not for men as philosophers
Spargeon.
Whatever becomes of my body or my
estate, ! will ever labor to find somewhat
added to the stature of my soul.-BistoI
Hall.
have been benefited by praying foI
others; for, making an errand to God fof
them, | have got something for myself
Rutherford.
The thunder-clap can strike the inatten,
tive, but it is only the listener that catches
the whisper of the summer air in the pine
trees-Fdber.
The one who will be found in trial capa-
BILE of great acts of love, is ever the one
who is always doing considerable small
ones.-F. w Robertson.
Think of the day, the humbling, affect.
ing, overwhelming day, when the cup OF
cold water will reappear as an ingredient
in the everlasting glory.-Jdmes Hamilton
ID. d.
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's tempta-
ton and do not weaken and distract your
self by looking forward to things which
you cannot see, and could not understand
if you saw them.-Carles Kingsley
If the hypocrites are in your way, it is
because they are ahead of you, and if /
were you, would not confess that | was
hindered from serving God by hypocrite.
Let me tell you, in all candor, that think
you are lying when you talk about being
kept from serving God by us poor fellows
who are in the church.-Sam Jones.
"See," said lad who was walking with
his father, "they are knocking away the
props from under the bridge; what are
they doing that for? Won't the bridge
fall?' "They are knocking them away"
said the father, that the timbers may rest
more firmly upon the stone piers, which
are now finished" God takes away our
earthly props that we may rest more firmly
upon him.
The old world was parted by deep CULTS.
There were three of especial depth and
width, across which ii was hard for sympa-
thy to fly. They were the distinctions Of
race sex and condition. But the good
news that Christ has died for all men, and
will live in all men, has thrown a bridge
| across, or rather has filled them up so the
apostle bursts into his triumphant procla-
nation There is neither Jew nor Greek
there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female for We are all one
in Christ Jesus."-Dr Alexander Nae
Ldren.
But it is in our worship, more than any
where else, that we come closest to the one
universal Church. In the liturgies of the
Churches the old Romish forms hare be-
queathed their choicest prayers and praise
their Glorias, TIE Deums and anthems
We unconsciously, i'll our deyotions, use
the unsurpassed passages of the Litany
brethren. We sing Wesley's hymns in
Calvinistic churches, and many devout
Methodist breathes out his faith in the
Evangelical hymn, My Faith Looks Up
to Thee" We love to raise our voices in
the words of SITS. Bernard and Francis
Xavier found in our Presbyterian hymn
books. Lead, Kindly Light" sings the
Catholic Newman; Nearer, Ny God, to
Thee" pleads in song the Unitarian Miss
Adams; . In the Cross of Christ / Glory"
shouts Bowring, the Unitarian; "Angels
of Jesus" prays the Catholic Faber zone
Sweetly Solemn Thought" sings the Uni
versalist Phoebe Carey.-Reu. Alexander r.
Merriam, IN the american Magazine.